Ryzen 7 9850X3D will be $30 more than the 9800X3D and launches on January 29, listings are already live
We now have official confirmation of the Ryzen 7 9850X3D release date – January 29th. This date lines up with a previous leak from when a French retailer listed the CPU early. However, one thing that remained a mystery was the price tag. This has now officially been revealed as $499, $20 more than the initial MSRP of the 9800X3D, or $30 more than its current street value.
The 9850X3D is essentially a higher-clocked version of the existing chip, which is currently the best CPU for gaming. “The world’s most advanced gaming processor just got faster,” quips AMD VP & GM David McAfee in a recent post announcing the news.
9850X3D arrives on January 29 for $499
While the 9800X3D offers a 5.2 GHz boost clock speed, the 9850X3D stretches this value up to 5.6 GHz. Both processors offer the same 8-core/16-thread design you expect from a Ryzen 7 processor, as well as a 4.7GHz base clock speed, 104MB total cache (96MB L3 cache), and 120W TDP. AMD says the 9850X3D is 25% faster than Intel’s flagship Core Ultra 9 285K, while its difference in performance to the 9800X3D is only a few percent. So it’s not much of a performance boost, but perhaps worth just $30 extra. Additionally, both chips are overclockable, so there’s always room to push them further than factory-level performance.
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is now starting to show its face in online retail stores, including Amazon and Newegg. The X3D processor was one of AMD’s biggest announcements at CES 2026, and certainly one of the most relevant to gamers, especially as no new discrete GPUs were announced at the annual tech conference. This includes no new graphics cards from Nvidia or Intel, too.
